The Mystery of Millions of Women in Pain From Sex
Good Health
At some point in their lifetimes, about 16 percent of women — about 14 million -- experience often excruciating pain when they have sex. The mystery is why the medical profession doesn't take these women more seriously, considering that by comparison 12 percent are diagnosed with breast cancer. Why, for example, is the condition Vulvodynia more associated with a heavy-metal band in web searches? A writer ventures out of his "male bubble" to find a medical jungle crowded with toxic treatments, false diagnoses, and shame. The Men Who Trade ISIS Loot
Wall Street Journal
ISIS is fading fast in Syria and Iraq, but the group's legacy of looting will linger for many years, law-enforcement officials say, much like Nazi-looted art still surfaces 70 years later. Syrian art traders, ISIS defectors and authorities in the U.S. and Europe explain how the international antiquities smuggling operation works -- and keeps money flowing to terrorists. Candidate Nixon Had Role Thwarting LBJ's Vietnam Peace Effort
Politico Magazine
A biographer of Richard M. Nixon says he stumbled upon notes kept by Nixon aide H.R. Haldeman that prove that as a presidential candidate in 1968, Nixon was directly involved in the so-called Chennault Affair -- efforts to sabotage President Lyndon B. Johnson's election-eve plans for Vietnam peace talks. The aim was to prod frustrated voters to turn to the Republican Party as their only hope to end the war. They did. Undermining Cheaper Generic Drugs
ProPublica, New York Times
Some pharmaceutical companies are cutting deals with insurance companies to favor their brand-name products over cheaper generics. Insurers pay less, but sometimes consumers pay more. Case in point: Adderall XR, a drug to treat attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder. Clergy Sex-Abuse Scandal on U.S. Island of Guam
Pacific Daily News
An investigation delves into nearly 100 lawsuits describing decades of rampant child sexual abuse by clergy on the remote, predominantly Catholic U.S. island of Guam. Among the charges: a boy fondled on the way to his grandmother's burial, and another molested for the first time on his seventh birthday, then raped or assaulted 100 more times. Sexualized Culture at Wildlife Agency
News Tribune
Until a female worker accused a former division boss of rape, an inappropriate sexual culture festered for more than a year in the upper ranks of Washington state's Department of Fish and Wildlife, an investigation found. A group of workers often held or tolerated sexually explicit conversations at work. And inappropriate behavior continued after hours - for example, at the accused manager's skinny-dipping parties. To Catch a Counterfeiter
California Sunday Magazine
Nearly all the world's fake products come from China -- not just handbags, but knockoff F-150 pickup trucks too. And Pinkerton, America's oldest private detective agency, is on the case. A magazine writer tags along with anti-counterfeiting investigator Azim Uribe, who describes his job as a game of whack-a-mole, because demand for fakes is unabating. At a Shanghai counterfeit market, a salesman says the place gets raided weekly, but big whoop: "I pay every month, so no trouble." New Theories About Origins of the Moon
Quanta Magazine
The textbook explanation for the moon's creation is this: A large object, like Mars or another planet, collided with Earth, and its debris cooled and solidified into the silvery companion we have today. Now scientists doubt the theory because it turns out moon rocks chemically are too Earth-like. So new theories have emerged -- alas, none involving cheese. | 
